New Attack on GM Food Safety Testing Standards

A fundamental principle of food safety testing is under fire. The pressure comes from GM plant developers that are bypassing a key safety test, which has a long history of safe use as a food for people. […]

Transformation-induced Mutations in Transgenic Plants: Analysis and Biosafety Implications

A comprehensive and up to date resource on the characteristics of transgene integration and associated genetic changes. […]

Interview: Risk assessment for Bt plants (2)

Interview with Jorg Romeis on the development of suitable models for the ecological risk assessment of Bt maize on non-target organisms. […]

Interview: Risk assessment for Bt plants (1)

Interview with Angelika Hilbeck on the development of suitable models for the ecological risk assessment of Bt maize on non-target organisms. […]

Comments by the European Communities on the Scientific and Technical Advice to the WTO Dispute Panel

These papers by the European Commission raises questions on the safety of GM foods and crops.The EC papers form the basis of the European Communities’ scientific arguments in the current trade dispute at the WTO. […]

Hidden Uncertainties

New documents released to Friends of the Earth reveal that the European Commission has been approving GM foods and crops despite having reservations about their safety. […]

Proceedings of the Conference Epigenetics, Transgenic Plants & Risk Assessment

30 years after Asilomar, scientists explained why the technology to create GMOs is not precise and not controllable. […]

The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation

This is a peer-reviewed paper based on the report ‘Genome Scrambling-Myth or Reality?’ by Jonathan R. Latham, Allison K.Wilson, and Ricarda A. Steinbrecher. […]

The Fate of Transgenes in the Human Gut

Gut microbes that cannot be recovered in artificial culture may acquire and harbor genes from genetically modified plants. […]

Recombinant viruses obtained from co-infection in vitro with a live vaccinia-vectored influenza vaccine and a naturally occurring cowpox virus display different plaque phenotypes and loss of the transgene

Some poxviruses are very attractive as transgenic vaccine vectors for humans, domestic animals and wildlife. Poxviridae family members circulate in different ecosystems and parts of the world, providing a pool of possible recombination partners for released or escaped genetically modified poxviruses. […]